otherwise
/ˈʌð.ɚˌwaɪz/ adverb B1- Differently, in another way. · Near-synonyms: contrarily, contrastingly· You may have a point, but I think otherwise.
- In different circumstances; or else. · I’m not well today, otherwise I would have helped.· You have to open your umbrella, otherwise you'll get wet.
- In all other respects; apart from that; except for this. · He lost his temper once in a while. Otherwise he behaved rationally.· There was one rotten apple in an otherwise perfect batch.
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“I quite agree with you,” said the Duchess; “and the moral of that is—‘Be what you would seem to be’—or if you’d like it put more simply—‘Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.’”
He must have placed it on the table before he was attacked; otherwise, of course, it would have fallen when he fell.
The boy congratulated himself on his good looks; the girl grew angry, and could not bear the self-praises of her Brother, interpreting all he said (and how could she do otherwise?) into reflection on herself.
“It is otherwise, however, from the housekeeper’s room.
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